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Google thrives where privacy does not. If you're like the most Internet citizens, Google knows more about you through your search requests than you might be comfortable with.

GoogleSharing.net provides a system that mixes the requests of many different users together, such that Google is not capable of telling what is coming from whom. The GoogleSharing proxy in combination with the GoogleSharing Firefox Addon aims to do a few very specific things for you

1. Provide a system that will prevent Google from collecting information about you from services which don't require a login.
2. Make this system completely transparent to the user. No special websites, no change to your work flow.
3. Leave your non-Google traffic completely untouched, unredirected, and unaffected.

It works, just like that: {picture goes here..}

We want to encourage you to do the same and provide our own GoogleSharing proxy server.

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The proxy works by generating a pool of GoogleSharing „identities,“ each of which contains a cookie issued by Google and an arbitrary User-Agent for one of several popular browsers. The Firefox Addon watches for requests to Google services from your browser, and when enabled will transparently redirect all of them (except for things like Gmail) to a GoogleSharing proxy. There your request is stripped of all identifying information and replaced with the information from a GoogleSharing identity. This „GoogleShared“ request is then forwarded on to Google, and the response is proxied back to you. Your next request will get a different identity, and the one you were using before will be assigned to someone else. By „sharing“ these identities, all of our traffic gets mixed together and is very difficult to analyze. The GoogleSharing proxy even constantly injects false but plausible search requests through all the identities. The result is that you can transparently use Google search, images, maps, products, news, etc… without Google being able to track you by IP address, Cookie, or any other identifying HTTP headers. And only your Google traffic is redirected. Everything else from your browser goes directly to its destination. GoogleSharing Transport Where Google has failed to provide universal HTTPS support, we have. All requests to a GoogleSharing proxy are sent via HTTPS. These eventually have to be proxied out as HTTP from GoogleSharing to Google, but your traffic is encrypted on the first path. Running A GoogleSharing Proxy We've made the proxy code available so that anyone can run a GoogleSharing proxy instance in addition to the one that we're running.

Project details: Infrastructure project: Running a GoogleSharing proxy server

Project owner: — hp 2010/05/05 12:09 and, of course, the traffic goes to our beloved & trustful ISP Sectoor.de.

Co-Project owner(s): n/a

Status: active